NGOs are calling on the European Union not to put on hold the introduction of a financial incentive for sustainable ship recycling under the EU Ship Recycling Regulation. Namely, the European Commission (EC) has released its report on the viability of such a financial incentive for sustainable ship
Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) will host their Coastal Connections event in St.Bernard, LA, tomorrow, August 15, to talk with residents about the Mid-Breton and Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion projects. A cornerstone project of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan, the s
Machinemonitor, part of the MM Group of companies, has been contracted to provide high-voltage electrical testing services for the Inpex-led Ichthys LNG project.
Oil company Erin Energy Corporation has started drilling of the Oyo-9 well offshore Nigeria. Oyo-9 is being drilled with the Pacific Drilling-owned drillship, the Pacific Bora. Erin hired the drillship for drilling operations on the Oyo-9 in March and the drillship reached its drilling location off
Oil and gas drilling contractor Nabors Industries has signed an agreement to acquire the U.S. oilfield services company, Tesco Corporation, in an all-stock transaction. Nabors said on Monday it will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Tesco Corporation, with each outstanding s
The new edition of the Latin American Congress of Ports will take place in the Convention Center of the Conrad Hotel in Punta del Este, Uruguay, through November 6th to 9th, 2017. Convened by the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) Latin American Delegation in partnership with the Admini
All Coast, a provider of liftboats to the U.S. oil and gas industry, has announced that it will add a new vessel to its fleet with which it will enter the U.S. offshore wind market. The vessel will be used for installation and maintenance of offshore wind farms.
A 366-meter containership CSCL Jupiter is stranded on the Westerschelde estuary near Bath, the Netherlands, following a grounding incident from earlier today. “We can confirm that the CSCL Jupiter ran aground on the Westerschelde estuary near Bath,” Dutch Rijkswaterstaat confirmed to World Maritime
Dare County recently announced that Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company completed beach nourishment operations in the Town Southern Shores on august 6th and is now focusing efforts in the town of Kitty Hawk. According to the latest video update, GLDD is pumping south from the subline landing located
Given the weak freight rate outlook for LPG shipping over the next twelve months, there is more downside risk to the second-hand values of very large gas carriers (VLGCs), according to shipping consultancy Drewry. Shipping analysts have been bearish on the VLGCs market since the beginning of the yea
Norwegian oil major Statoil on Friday launched a video showing the installation of its second offshore platform this summer, the Oseberg H. Statoil said that it installed one large and one small platform in the North Sea this summer. The large platform is the Mariner A located on the UK continental
Ichthys Venturer, the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility, arrived in Australian waters on August 14. The 336-meter-long, 59-meter-wide, ship-shaped, weather-vaning facility will be permanently moored in the Browse Basin, about 220 kilomet
Mercator Ltd, one of India’s diversified conglomerates with interests in coal, oil and gas, shipping and dredging, is considering dividing its shipping and dredging business into two separate entities. “On 12th August 2017, the Board of Directors of Mercator initiated a study to explore the possibil
Globe Telecom has launched the USD 250-million Southeast Asia-United States (SEA-US) submarine cable system, providing direct links between Davao City and the United States. The 14,500-kilometer SEA-US international cable system uses the 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) transmission technology to deli
